The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of SMART: A Scheduler for Multimedia Applications

Jason Nieh12 and Monica S. Lam1,     1Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University; 2Sun Microsystems Laboratories

Abstract

Real-time applications such as multimedia audio and video are increasingly populating the workstation desktop. To support the execution of these applications in conjunction with traditional non-realtime applications, we have created SMART, a Scheduler for Multimedia And Real-Time applications. SMART supports applications with time constraints, and provides dynamic feedback to applications to allow them to adapt to the current load. In addition, the support for real-time applications is integrated with the support for conventional ...

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